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Posted by Steve King on 03/08/07 16:49
"Ron Furlong" <rfurlong@accesswave.ca> wrote in message
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>I have spent the past 3 hours looking for the unbiased answer to what are
> the determining factors for choosing brand and product line of recording
> media. In the 80's it was easy you spent $30+ for a 1 hr pro VHS or Beta
> tape and away you went. But I have just gotten back in the game and there
> are a lot of factors that didn't exist when I was shooting and editing in
> the 80's. I am shooting with a Panasonic DVX100 and capturing to my
> editing
> suite from a Panasonic 300x through its firewire. My content is commercial
> grade training and how-to's on DVD's and/or CD's. I've been using Sony's
> DVM60EXML tapes but am now thinking I might be over-buying or spending
> money
> I don't need to. I'm looking to put in an order for 100 tapes and if I can
> spend 100's rather than 1,000's that would be a good thing. Can you help
> me?
> If you wanted to respond to my practice of using the consumer grade camera
> to capture my footage I would welcome your opinions on that as well.
When I first started shooting DV I worried about this, too. It was also at
a time that there was an apparent incompatibility between the lubricants
that Sony and Panasonic were using. The mantra was to make a choice and
stick with it. I chose Sony. A couple of years later, after the lubricant
issue was apparently resolved, I ran into a colleague who shoots all over
the world for, among others, National Geographic. At the time he was using
a BBC modified PD150. I asked him about tape brands. He said that the
policy of his production company, by necessity because of the remote regions
in which they shoot, was to use whatever DV tape was available at the local
market or third world drug store. In doing so he had never had a problem in
the hundreds and hundreds of rolls of tape they shot. At that point I
stopped worrying. I still stick with Sony mostly out of habit. I use
DVM60PRL, the low price spread. I've had one instance of drop out in five
years. YMMV;-)
Steve King
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